Brea Plaza 5

jwmovies on March 3, 2022 at 6:45 pm

Brea can’t keep a movie theatef to save its life!

Movies 8 DUST

Mall 4 Bam GONE

Marketplace 8 OBLITERATED

Brea West 10 Started as a furniture store and ended that way see Regency 6 Pleasant Hill for more details

Now the once glorious plaza? When is the blood letting going to cease Brea? When you have none? STOP THE MADNESS! 🤯

rivest266 on November 19, 2019 at 2:41 pm

Still open at the time of its post. Grand opening ads from April 1st, 1977 from the Register and the LA Times posted.

jmarellano on July 27, 2010 at 2:02 pm

This theater is set to reopen as a discount house. It has been completely remodeled. It is supposed to open Friday, 7/30/10.

The new name of this theater is Brea 5 Cinemas.

CTCrouch on September 16, 2009 at 8:57 pm

The Fall of 09' will see the theatre utilized as a temporary horror attraction once again. However, this appears to be the venue’s “last hurrah”, as the property is advertising a major redevelopment for the overall complex; the architectural rendering appears to depict a new in-line “big box” center that would replace all of the existing structures.

To supplement my earlier profile; Mann opened the Brea Plaza, as a four screen, on 4/1/77.

CTCrouch on September 9, 2007 at 2:02 am

I recently (9/07) went through the vacant Brea Plaza 5, here are some updates on the venue:

(From Captain Blood era)
Most of the interior was spray painted flat black and a few amatuer murals were placed around the building.
The original concesion stand was haphazzardly cut open in the center and a large peninsula was added. This poorly constructed addition consisted of exposed particle board and severly obstructed the tiny lobby.

(Post closing)
Obviously, teenagers managed to break in and use the building as a hangout at some point, as there is a great deal of graffitti and discarded bottles/cigarrette butts throughout the venue.
Perhaps related to the teens, all interior glass has been broken, day-glo paint is splattered randomly on the walls, and left over equipment/booth materials have been strewn about the building.
The box office and concession cabinetry has been torn apart.

(Random treasure)
A seemingly functional automaticket machine still sits in the box office.

While a heavy duty cleanup and a little TLC could bring this venue back to life, it appears the landlord has basically forgotten about or written the theatre off. I’d like to think someone will step in an give this theatre a new lease on life (there are definite posibilities), but it seems more likely to sit empty for years and eventually be gutted for a warehouse or storage facility.